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The language, statements and demands in the notices, sent under different names, are identical.
In one of the new notices, in addition to threatening bdnews24.com with legal action for publishing any false or baseless news after this , a lawyer also warned of “adverse consequences” for the news publisher.
bdnews24.com opened the process to answer the legal notices after receiving those, beginning with a response to the one sent by Babul through Jewel.
The second notice dated Feb 18 reached the bdnews24.com office from the Barishal lawyer on Feb 24.
It accepted the receipt of the bdnews24.com reply to the first notice, but said the receivers of the notice did not delete or remove the reports “wilfully”, which the second notice described as “shameful and unfortunate”.
Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 02 Mar 2021 07:10 PM BdST
Updated: 02 Mar 2021 07:10 PM BdST
Reporters Against Corruption or RAC has condemned the pressure on bdnews24.com to remove old reports as “interference in the freedom of press”. );
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The group of journalists covering news about Anti-Corruption Commission in a statement on Tuesday alleged a number of members of the organisation are facing harassment for writing reports against corruption.
“Harassing reporters is nothing but a new strategy to hide corruption,” RAC President Mohiuddin Ahmed and General Secretary Ahmed Foyez said in the statement.
The RAC leaders urged everyone to refrain from such “condemnable” practices.
Gazipur Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Gazipur Press Club has condemned as “unethical” the pressure on bdnews24.com to remove old reports. );
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The journalists protested against and expressed concern over such action by influential people in a meeting at the club’s auditorium on Thursday.
bdnews24.com had published reports on court proceedings and orders in cases filed against former MP HBM Iqbal, a freedom fighter and chairman of Premier Group, and members of his family in the past one and a half decades as had other mainstream media outlets.
bdnews24.com, Bangladesh s first internet newspaper, also covered the news of acquittal of Iqbal and his family members of the charges.